> From: Ben Peters > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Cheng <dch...@chromium.org> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Hallvord R. M. Steen > <hst...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> > >> > Does anyone else have input for/against this? > >> > >> Conceptually, I guess RTF sort of covers the same use cases as HTML. That > doesn't necessarily mean we should not add it. > >> > >> I don't have "input" as such, but I have a few questions: > >> Is there any widely used software that writes RTF data to the system > clipboard but *not* HTML? > >> > >> If there's RTF on the clipboard and you try pasting into a rich text > >> editing > element, does any browser convert RTF to HTML to preserve the formatting? > > > > > > Chrome Mac should (though I've never tested this functionality). I think the > code for this was inherited from Camino, so Firefox may have this as well. > It's > not common--it's only implemented on Mac because there's some platform > support already for parsing RTF into a NSAttributedString and then dumping > the result as HTML. > > Internet Explorer puts RTF on the clipboard during copy (as well as HTML, > text, etc), so yes we should allow developers to access it.
Actually IE also supports converting RTF on the clipboard to HTML when pasted.
